In 2020, Urawa Red Diamonds , the Urawa Reds headed by Director Otsuki. Will they Come Back to be the top tier club again? Urawa Reds, which has been named as a "red devil" and has been named as a strong team in the J League.
In 2018, won the Emperor's Cup, earned the right to participate in the 2019 AFC Champions League, and finished second. However, in recent years, the team structure has not been set up easily, and the difficult battles centered on league games continue. Director Mikhail Petrovich, who had been the director since 2012, was dismissed in the summer of 2017. After that, when Takashi Hori was released, Tsuyoshi Otsuki was quickly appointed to fill the gap, and then he was handed over to Oswald Oliveira, but the baton was immediately returned to him. Director Otsuki, who is known as the “boss” and “outrage” due to its appearance, has a history of being a training director and also worked for a long time in the strategy team as an analysis person for Urawa Reds. From that experience, he is good at skillful tactics, and is also good at maintaining the mental support and motivation of the players, and has earned the trust of the players. In 2019, the director is replaced by Otsuki as the season has already begun. However, it is difficult to get back into the condition once it has fallen, and partly due to the overcrowded schedule, after a low-ranking battle in the league game, J1 barely remains.
Manager Otsuki has decided to continue pitching in 2020, but the newly decided player is Hidetoshi Takeda who was scouted for a great success in youth, and J2 scorer Brazilian player Leonardo who was transferred from Niigata , Ryotaro Ito, who came back from "Musha training", stayed. With the expected newcomers, ex-Japan representative Kenyu Sugimoto, Ryosuke Yamanaka, Daisuke Suzuki, and excellent attacker Yasuya Souki, who have been transferred in 2019, excellence such as Evertton who is described as "brainball soccer" Urawa Reds supporters are enthusiastically observing how far they are, as well as Otsuki, who will continue to win.